Noam Chomsky. Photo credit: Oliver Abraham (oliverabraham (at) gmx.de)May 25, 2020 (Common Dreams) -- World-renowned intellectual and author Noam Chomsky called President Trump a "sociopathic megalomaniac" whose leadership drove the United States to become "singularly unprepared" for the coronavirus pandemic. Chomsky's fresh criticism of the president came in an interview with Agence France-Press ...

Love you more... Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. May 18, 2020 (Web Of Debt) -- When the Dodd-Frank A ...

Two opposing circuits connecting the brain to the stomach convey either "fight or flight" or "rest and digest" commands to the gut. Credit: David Levinthal, M.D., Ph.D., and Peter Strick, Ph.D. May 1 ...

May 15, 2020 (LEAP) -- The next U.S. presidential election, despite its relatively normal exterior, is already showing some new features. For example: 1) It’s not the main point of interest on the pl ...

Credit: Dmitry Demidko on UnsplashMay 14, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The coronavirus pandemic has created enormous volatility in global financial markets but prices of safe-haven assets such as gold and bitc ...

Newsrooms need to take advantage of what AI can offer and come up with a new business model. (Shutterstock) Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) May 5, 2020 (The Conversation) -- The ...

The Fed’s Generous New Rules May 2, 2020 (Web Of Debt) -- Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package -- a mere 5 percent -- ha ...

Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 1, 2020 (Phys.org) -- When the person at the top is malignant and self-serving, unethical behavior cascades through the organization and becomes legitimized. What traits ...

Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and f ...